Yummy. :-)
Davey Stuart tenor guitar (based on his 18" mandola design).
Eastman MD-604SB with Grover 309 tuners.
Eastwood 4 string electric mandostang, 2x Airline e-mandola (4-string) one strung as an e-OM.
DSP's: Helix HX Stomp, various Zooms.
Amps: THR-10, Sony XB-20.
Well done how does it work for you?
@fox That guitar has been sitting around gathering dust since I landed the 2nd hand Eastwood Astrojet, & this guitar is a better quality guitar than the Eastwood. My band saw broke its blade a couple of days ago in the middle of a run of 5 banjos that I'm making & it's still too cold to practice for my soft Aussie fingers in this Irish winter. So I shifted the volume knob further down clear my finger action. I marked a line from the outside string slots down to 5mm inside the bottom of the fingerboard & rasped every thing outside the line. Then I plugged 4 peg holes with birch & drilled 2 new ones. Cut in a new brass nut. I already had a five string tailstop in place of the six on it so I just repositioned it to centre the top four strings. Then I reshaped the neck profile (tacking away as little material as possible), two coats of hard wax oil & a black texter marker on the birch on the headstock. Jobs done. It plays nicely, but I haven't plugged it in yet. I may send it to Almuse to get new custom electrics but that will be back on the long finger I also did a similar job converting a Harley Benton Reso-king to a 5 string banjo layout, that one came out really well but I haven't a clue how to play it, so 5 string banjo picking is next on my learning list.
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